Re: CAD like app.

[John Matthewman <jmatthewman gmail com>]

On 3/1/11, Maximilian Schneider <king greatfreeworld org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on a CAD like gtk app.
> a cairo Drawing area surounded by toolbar icons, controllable through
> the mouse+keyboard.
>
> I'm stuck trying to figure out how to create keyboard shortcuts.
>
> How is it supposed to be done?
>
> I've heard that this subject isn't the most well baked part of gtk...
> but any solution that works is fine by me.

I remember getting stumped by this when making a toolbar with keyboard
shortcuts in a PyGTK application, but I eventually figured out how to
use Accelerators and Actions to solve the problem. In PyGTK the
relevant objects were (if I remember it all correctly): Action,
AccelGroup, ActionGroup. Maybe you can search from some example code
snippets?

John